Theater News

The University of Alabama is ending an alliance with the Montgomery-based Alabama Shakespeare Festival that has produced top actors, stage managers and designers for Broadway and Hollywood.

Actor Karl Malden is being remembered in Emporia for ties he had to the city and Emporia State University.

If the voice of God sounds like Mayor John E. McCormac that's because it will be - but for five days only.

July's cultural calendar is a little light - and a good thing, too: June's pace was way too intense.

Stage Research, show sound and lighting software designers, will be providing a day of SFX training to students on July 15th at the Stagecraft Institute of Las Vegas Experience-Based Technical Theatre Training Program .

With a sometimes bumpy Minneapolis test debut for his new family drama out of the way, playwright Tony Kushner is setting his sights on getting the play to Broadway by the end of the year.

With festival attendance topping 60,000 and ticket sales up from the last two years despite a sluggish economy, Frameline 33, the oldest and largest celebration of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender films and filmmakers in the world, reached its conclusion Sunday with the world premiere of Wendy Jo Carltona s Hannah Free .

VMI Summer Theatre will present Agatha Christie's classic murder-mystery, "The Mousetrap." on July 15, 16, 17, and 18, at 7:30 p.m. in the Gillis Theater, Marshall Hall, Center for Leadership and Ethics, at VMI.

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It was the movies that killed John Dillinger -- Gangster No. 1 until he was gunned down outside a Chicago theater after taking in the pictures one hot night in 1934 -- and it was the movies that brought him back to life.

Comedy legend Mel Brooks will receive the tribute treatment by The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and some of his favorite stars are lining up to be there! ET's own Leonard Maltin will host the evening's events on Friday, July 24, at 8 p.m. at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills, featuring numerous film clips and stories from ...

Johnny Depp brings John Dillinger back, but not entirely alive. Johnny Depp in "Public Enemies" John Dillinger's reign as America's most-wanted bank robber only spanned 10 months - from the fall of 1933, when he pulled his first such heist, to the summer of 1934, when federal agents shot him down in front of Chicago's Biograph Theater.

As construction crews clear trees from the site of Simpsonville's future movie theater complex on South Street, landowners of nearby property salivate over the development boost the theater could bring.

Meredith returns to an era of poodle skirts, bobby socks, and brylcreem as the Summer Theater in Meredith Village turns Inter-Lakes High School into Rydell High for its production of "Grease!" Greasers go for good girls, and teenagers make up and break up in the familiar musical that recalls the 1950s.

Jude Law is heading to Broadway! According to The New York Times , the actor, who's currently starring in a Donmar Warehouse production of Shakespeare's Hamlet , will bring the show to Broadway in September.

Melotte will see the John Dillinger biopic Tuesday night at Eastgate Cinema during a sold-out special screening for residents of Columbus, one of many state locations able to boast "Johnny Depp was here." "Public Enemies" opens on more than 3,200 screens nationwide Wednesday.

Actor Hugh Jackman arrives at the screening 20th Century Fox's 'X-Men Origins: Wolverine' at the Chinese Theater on April 28, 2009 in Los Angeles, California.

Michael Jackson fans converged on Harlem's famed Apollo Theater Tuesday for a public tribute to the performer, clutching photographs, cheering and dancing to his music at the legendary venue that launched the one-time child star's career.

Pina Bausch, a German choreographer known for her pioneering work, died Tuesday.

Actor Hugh Jackman arrives at the screening 20th Century Fox's 'X-Men Origins: Wolverine' at the Chinese Theater on April 28, 2009 in Los Angeles, California.